A homeopathic first-aid kit helps the whole family on vacation and when traveling with diarrhea, sunstroke, cold, nausea and other complaints. You can plan and prepare well in advance with which medicines you fill the homeopathic first aid kit.
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Which complaints does the homeopathic first aid kit help?
A variety of complaints can arise when traveling, for which a homeopathic first aid kit can be useful. With the most common homeopathy emergency aids, you can treat minor injuries, nausea, headache, cold, insect bites and many other complaints yourself. The typical and most common holiday complaints are:
Injuries
If minor injuries such as bruises, sprains or bruises spoil the holiday enjoyment, homeopathic emergency aids can be just as helpful as for sore muscles or lumbago. Medicines from the homeopathic first-aid kit speed up healing in the event of cuts or tears.
Typical drugs for injuries are: Arnica, Rhus toxicodendron, Ruta, Hypericum, Calendula and Staphysagria.
Gastrointestinal complaints
There are many reasons why gastrointestinal problems can occur on vacation. Whether a spoiled food, food and climate change, travel fever, travel sickness or excessive gluttony is the reason for the complaints: the right homeopathic medicine can quickly provide relief.
Typical medicines for gastrointestinal complaints are Arsenicum album, Nux vomica, Okoubaka, Pulsatilla, Cocculus and Gelsemium.
Colds
A cold can occur in any season and in any place. Air conditioning, ventilation and temperature changes increase the risk that you will catch a cold exactly in the most beautiful days of the year.
Typical medicines for colds are aconite, belladonna and phosphorus.
Insect bites, sunburn and sun allergy
This skin discomfort can greatly diminish the vacation joy, but with the right homeopathic medicine you can help yourself and your family quickly.
Typical remedies for skin complaints are Apis, Ledum, Cantharis, Hypericum and Rhus toxicodendron.
Remedies for the homeopathic first aid kit
Homeopathic medicines have many uses, which can be particularly helpful when traveling and on vacation. To put together the ideal first aid kit, consider the following medicines and then put together the homeopathic first aid kit from the list:
Acidum hydrofluoricum: can help with a sun allergy.
Aconite: is a typical medicine for the early stages of acute, inflammatory diseases and the early stages of a cold. Suddenly there is a fever, restlessness and palpitations and great restlessness. The fever is often caused by cold wind.
Apis mellifica: helps with the consequences of insect bites, jellyfish contact, acute inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes, allergic reactions and bad sunburn. The affected area of the skin is swollen bright red, there is stinging pain, cold applications improve the symptoms, heat exacerbates it.
Arnica montana: is the most important and best-known homeopathy emergency aid. It helps with blunt tissue injuries due to impact or bruising with swelling and bruising, but also with sprains, bruises, broken bones, head injuries and concussion. These injuries can be the result of falls or blunt bumps, surgery, overexertion, or infection. A typical feeling of tiredness all over the body and exhaustion.
Arsenicum album: is particularly helpful for gastrointestinal flu, traveler's diarrhea and food poisoning. But it can also help with febrile infections, anxiety, severe burns and panic attacks. The symptoms are burning and are accompanied by exhaustion and shivering. Watery diarrhea and vomiting can lead to collapse and dehydration.
Belladonna: is particularly helpful for acute inflammation and infections that start very suddenly and are associated with fever, throbbing pain and a hot head. Examples are flu infections, otitis media, sunburn, sunstroke and acute conjunctivitis. Belladonna is also often helpful for throbbing headaches that worsen with light and noise.
Bryonia: can be used for complaints that are very painful due to the slightest movement or vibration. These include, in particular, painful coughs, headaches, breast infections in breastfeeding women and joint infections.
Cantharis: helps with burns and severe sunburn when the skin is red and blistered. Acute cystitis, which is accompanied by a persistent urge to urinate and a strong burning sensation when urinating, can be treated with Cantharis.
Colocynthis: can be helpful for colic-like pain in the stomach, intestines, gallbladder, ureter, urinary bladder and uterus.
Calendula: helps with skin injuries such as lacerations and abrasions as well as mild sunburn.
Cocculus: is an important remedy for travel and seasickness, dizziness, nausea and vomiting.
Gelsemium: can help with summer flu with fever, headache and dizziness. You can also try Gelsemium if you have a headache that starts at the back of your neck and moves over your head towards your forehead and eyes, especially if the headache appears after too much sun.
Glonoinum: helps with pounding, pounding headaches that are often the result of sunstroke.
Hypericum: is particularly effective for nerve pain caused by stab wounds, animal bites or bruises. It can also be used for burns or sunstroke.
Ledum: Homeopathic help for stab wounds and insect bites is the most important remedy for insect bites and inflammation after a bite.
Nux vomica: is the classic remedy for the consequences of stress and an unhealthy lifestyle with too much coffee, alcohol, tobacco and too much food. Indigestion after exciting situations and stress can also be treated with it. Other areas of application include colds, headaches, toothaches and jet lag.
Okubaka: is especially important on a vacation in hot regions, as it can help with complaints from the climate and food change in southern countries as well as food poisoning.
Pulsatilla: relieves stomach discomfort after eating ice cream or fatty food. Another typical application is bladder infections due to wet feet.
Phosphorus: has many areas of application. This particularly includes sore throat, cough, lower respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal infections, bleeding, headache, dizziness and purulent processes. Almost all complaints lead to unusually great exhaustion and weakness.
Rhus toxicodendron: is particularly suitable for the consequences of overexertion, lifting and dislocations. These are sore muscles, body aches, lumbago, tendon and ligament injuries. Rhus toxicodendron can also be used if the cold or drenching causes colds, flu infections or cold sores, or there is a strong itchy sun allergy.
Ruta graveolens: is used for sprains and sprains (especially the wrists and ankles), periostitis, bursitis, low back pain after overexertion and eye pain after overexertion (e.g. after reading for too long).
Veratrum album: helps with poor circulation and low blood pressure when the circulation in the basement is due to stress or weather. Another area of application is vomiting diarrhea with cold sweat on the forehead, great feeling of thirst and tendency to collapse.
Homeopathic first aid kit for children and babies
If you want to travel with children, you should supplement the homeopathic first-aid kit for children with the following medicines that are typical for children:
Carbo vegetabilis: for flatulence, gastrointestinal disorders, cramping cough.
Chamomilla: for bloating colic, teething problems and diarrhea. Babies are annoying, irritable and want to be carried around.
Drosera: with convulsive cough, laryngitis, cough after measles.
Dulcamara: for colds, sinus infections, bladder infections.
Ferrum phosphoricum: for defensive weakness, acute throat and ear infections, gastrointestinal diseases, colds.
Ipecacuanha: for nausea, vomiting after eating, coughing with vomiting.
Phytolacca: with painful sore throat.
Spongia: for croup cough.
Use homeopathic first aid kit
The drugs in the homeopathic first-aid kit are mainly used to treat acute illnesses or injuries. Without a medical examination, however, only complaints should be treated in which a serious illness can be excluded as the cause.
Homeopathic medicines can be used in a variety of ways. According to the rules of classic homeopathy, individual remedies are always used, which are available in the form of globules, tablets, drops, sprays or ointments.
It is recommended to use all medicines from the first aid kit in potencies D6 or D12. Some manufacturers offer pre-filled travel pharmacies, but you can also put them together yourself according to your own needs.
In the case of acute complaints, you can easily repeat the selected agent until there is a marked improvement. In the case of acute symptoms, take five globules every hour (children three globules) until improvement, but no more than six times a day. After that, you can take three to five globules three times a day for a few days.
Homeopathic treatment can be stopped if there is no noticeable improvement over a longer period of time. Acute symptoms that remain unchanged over a long period of time under homeopathic treatment or even get worse should be examined by a doctor. If the complaints turn out to be harmless, a change of funds may have to be made.
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